Senior Front End Developer

About the job Senior Front End Developer

Our client is a forward‑looking £1 billion employee‑owned management, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sector around the world, with a strong commitment to digital innovation.

They are looking for a highly motivated Senior Front‑end Developer to work in our dynamic Digital Ventures Unit, helping to build new technology products to address infrastructure’s biggest challenges globally and revolutionise how the industry delivers. By leading our professional software development team, your role strongly aligns with our vision and digital commitments.

From using big data to predict bathing water quality in Auckland, helping 500,000 residents know the best beaches to swim, to supporting major asset owners such as Heathrow and Anglian Water in super‑charging design and delivery efficiencies through automation, you will play a key part in developing new solutions for governments and industry‑leading organisations, helping to transform the way cities operate and driving improved environmental, economic and social outcomes – making the world a truly better place.

Based in London and Cambridge, the team focuses on providing scalable, high‑value solutions from its digital twin platform Moata.

You will be part of an exciting team responsible for developing our cloud‑based web interface, supporting advanced analytics, complex mapping and immersive visualisation. Our platform is currently used by our largest clients across the world, and you’ll be working with our team to scale it.

The specific duties include:

• Building a dynamic and responsive user interface.
• Contributing and developing UI experiences to our one technology platform.
• Managing your work and the work of your reports across multiple projects.
• Coaching and mentoring other Front‑End Developers within the Unit.
• Leading code/design reviews on new and existing projects.
• Building functionality to be used on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
• Managing multiple projects at various stages of the development lifecycle in parallel, working on both high and low specification jobs; overseeing optimisation, refactoring, bug fixing and conducting peer reviews.

We are seeking a dynamic and talented person with solid commercial experience, including a period in a senior or leadership capacity, mentoring others. The successful candidate will be able to show work produced from this period and describe their specific inputs. They should have a strong understanding of UX/UI design, cross‑browser compatibility, general web functions and standards, and a demonstrable ability to create rich front‑end functionality and work with data.

The successful candidate must be a team player and effective communicator, confident in their capability, while recognizing areas for development. They should have a natural ability to develop others, nurture best practice, and maintain consciousness in everyone. They must also think creatively and always seek new and more efficient ways to improve the application and associated development processes.

• Type Script
• React (16.8+)
• Testing frameworks
• SCSS
• RESTful APIs

• Experience of CI/CD
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Design
• Security management
• Caching techniques
• Cloud technologies
• Creating and managing NPM packages
• Working in Agile teams
• Integration testing
• Experience contributing to the architecture/design of new or current applications (micro frontends, design patterns, reliability, scaling, automation)

If this sounds like you,  now to apply!